Veterinary Education

Global overview of veterinary schools: numbers

There are 520 veterinary schools/colleges globally, located in 113 countries.

94.5% of the world’s population live in a country with a veterinary school. That’s 6,588,399,546 out of a total global population of 6,973,738,433.

However, before we become too smug about this, 41.8% (113/194) of the countries in the world do not have a veterinary school.

The majority of these countries are in Oceania and Africa (Table 1). The small countries of the Pacific are particularly deficient in veterinary schools with veterinary schools only being found in Australia and New Zealand.

Table 1: Continents with proportion of their countries that have a veterinary school / college.

Continents

Countries

Vet college

Percent

Africa

54

20

37.0%

Asia

44

28

63.6%

Europe

47

38

80.9%

N. America

23

15

65.2%

Oceania

14

2

14.3%

S. America

12

10

83.3%

Global total

194

113

58.2%

For the countries with at least one veterinary school, there is one school per 13,555,107 people (on average). The median is 6,090,646, indicating that the data is skewed to the right (Fig 1). The maximum number of residents per veterinary school is 91,195,675 for Ethiopia (at least they have a school). The minimum is St Kits with 1,817!

The number of residents per veterinary school is shown in Table 2 and the distribution is shown in Fig. 1.

Table 2: Number of residents per veterinary school for countries with at least one veterinary school.

Country

Population

Vet college

Pop college

Afghanistan

30,419,928

1

30,419,928

Albania

3,002,859

1

3,002,859

Algeria

37,367,226

4

9,341,807

Angola

18,056,072

1

18,056,072

Antigua & Barbuda

89,018

1

89,018

Argentina

42,192,494

10

4,219,249

Armenia

2,970,495

1

2,970,495

Australia

22,015,576

6

3,669,263

Austria

8,219,743

1

8,219,743

Azerbaijan

9,493,600

1

9,493,600

Bangladesh

161,083,804

2

80,541,902

Belarus

9,643,566

2

4,821,783

Belgium

10,438,353

2

5,219,177

Bolivia

10,290,003

2

5,145,002

Bosnia

3,879,296

1

3,879,296

Brazil

199,321,413

53

3,760,781

Bulgaria

7,037,935

2

3,518,968

Cambodia

14,952,665

1

14,952,665

Canada

34,300,083

4

8,575,021

Cayman Islands

52,560

1

52,560

Chile

17,067,369

7

2,438,196

China

1,343,239,923

18

74,624,440

Colombia

45,239,079

11

4,112,644

Congo (DRC)

73,599,190

1

73,599,190

Costa Rica

4,636,348

2

2,318,174

Croatia, Republic of

4,480,043

1

4,480,043

Cuba

11,075,244

5

2,215,049

Czech Republic

10,177,300

1

10,177,300

Denmark

5,543,453

1

5,543,453

Dominican Republic

10,088,598

7

1,441,228

Ecuador

15,223,680

9

1,691,520

Egypt

83,688,164

12

6,974,014

El Salvador

6,090,646

1

6,090,646

Estonia

1,274,709

1

1,274,709

Ethiopia

91,195,675

1

91,195,675

Finland

5,262,930

1

5,262,930

France

65,630,692

4

16,407,673

Georgia

4,570,934

1

4,570,934

Germany

81,305,856

6

13,550,976

Greece

10,767,827

2

5,383,914

Grenada

109,011

1

109,011

Guatemala

14,099,032

1

14,099,032

Guinea Republic

10,884,958

1

10,884,958

Hungary

9,958,453

1

9,958,453

India

1,205,073,612

29

41,554,262

Indonesia

248,645,008

5

49,729,002

Iran

78,868,711

10

7,886,871

Iraq

31,129,225

2

15,564,613

Ireland

4,722,028

1

4,722,028

Israel

7,590,758

1

7,590,758

Italy

61,261,254

12

5,105,105

Japan

127,368,088

16

7,960,506

Jordan

6,508,887

1

6,508,887

Kazakhstan

17,522,010

3

5,840,670

Kenya

43,013,341

1

43,013,341

Kyrghyzstan

5,496,737

1

5,496,737

Latvia

2,191,580

2

1,095,790

Libya

5,613,380

2

2,806,690

Lithuania

3,525,761

1

3,525,761

Macedonia

2,082,370

1

2,082,370

Malaysia

29,179,952

1

29,179,952

Mexico

114,975,406

32

3,592,981

Moldova, Republic of

3,656,843

1

3,656,843

Morocco

32,309,239

1

32,309,239

Mozambique

23,515,934

1

23,515,934

Myanmar

54,584,650

1

54,584,650

Nepal

29,890,686

1

29,890,686

Netherlands

16,730,632

1

16,730,632

New Zealand

4,327,944

1

4,327,944

Nicaragua

5,727,707

1

5,727,707

Nigeria

170,123,740

7

24,303,391

Norway

4,707,270

1

4,707,270

Pakistan

190,291,129

4

47,572,782

Panama

3,510,045

1

3,510,045

Paraguay

6,541,591

1

6,541,591

Peru

29,549,517

8

3,693,690

Philippines

103,775,002

16

6,485,938

Poland

38,415,284

4

9,603,821

Portugal

10,781,459

4

2,695,365

Romania

21,848,504

5

4,369,701

Russia

142,517,670

33

4,318,717

Saudi Arabia

26,534,504

2

13,267,252

Senegal

12,969,606

1

12,969,606

Serbia

7,276,604

2

3,638,302

Slovak Republic

5,483,088

1

5,483,088

Slovenia

1,996,617

1

1,996,617

Somalia

10,085,638

1

10,085,638

South Africa

48,810,427

2

24,405,214

South Korea

48,860,500

9

5,428,944

Spain

47,042,984

10

4,704,298

Sri Lanka

21,481,334

1

21,481,334

St Kits & Nevis

1,817

1

1,817

Sudan

34,206,710

1

34,206,710

Sweden

9,103,788

1

9,103,788

Switzerland

7,925,517

2

3,962,759

Syria

22,530,746

1

22,530,746

Taiwan

23,234,936

4

5,808,734

Tajikistan

7,768,385

1

7,768,385

Tanzania

46,912,768

1

46,912,768

Thailand

67,091,089

6

11,181,848

Trinidad and Tobago

1,226,383

1

1,226,383

Tunisia

10,732,900

1

10,732,900

Turkey

79,749,461

8

9,968,683

Turkmenistan

5,054,828

1

5,054,828

Uganda

33,640,833

1

33,640,833

Ukraine

44,854,065

8

5,606,758

United Kingdom

63,047,162

7

9,006,737

Uruguay

3,316,328

1

3,316,328

USA

313,847,465

28

11,208,838

Venezuela

28,047,938

6

4,674,656

Vietnam

91,519,289

2

45,759,645

Zambia

13,817,479

1

13,817,479

Zimbabwe

12,619,600

1

12,619,600

Figure 1: Distribution of number of residents per veterinary school for countries with at least one veterinary school.